If just the Californicate DmV needs 900 (!!!) more clerks just to process these, can you imagine how many millions of foreigners obammy’s flooding us with? Staggering! (Ps: they’re not all from Mexico either - the islamonazis are rushing in - and are already participating in street riots and doing college campus hate speeches against christians and jews. Just wait when they get their forces built up further here!)
99% of those who qualify are not newbies who arrived yesterday. They live here, work here, have kids in the schools, use our health care system, and drive here now, all without having an authentic diver's license. Why be subject to any test, written or physical? Why buy insurance when for the last decade, being stopped without a license involves a fine which never gets paid? If there is an injury accident requiring a CHP report, so what? No incarceration and certainly, no deportation.
As for voting, they don't get paid to vote, they are not fearful of any change in California politics which is 70-80% left so 'what difference would it make?'
Bottom line, CA law generally applies only to its legal residents so becoming 'legal' is just a burden which yields few benefits if any.